Annick MacAskill
Canadian poet
Annick MacAskill is a Canadian poet from Halifax, Nova Scotia,[1] who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2022 Governor General's Awards for her collection Shadow Blight.[2]
Born in London, Ontario, and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Western Ontario, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Saint Mary's University. She has published two prior poetry collections, No Meeting Without Body (2018) and Murmurations (2020).
Shadow Blight was shortlisted for the 2023 Pat Lowther Award.[3]
References
- ^ "Two Nova Scotians nominated for 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards". SaltWire Network, October 12, 2022.
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction". Toronto Star, November 16, 2022.
- ^ Cassandra Drudi, "League of Canadian Poets announces 2023 Book Awards shortlists". Quill & Quire, April 20, 2023.
External links
- Official website
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
- F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981)
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
- David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
- Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
- Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
- Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
- Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
- Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
- Margaret Avison, No Time (1990)
- Don McKay, Night Field (1991)
- Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992)
- Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
- Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
- Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995)
- E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
- Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997)
- Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
- Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
- Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000)
- George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001)
- Roy Miki, Surrender (2002)
- Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003)
- Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
- Anne Compton, processional (2005)
- John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
- Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
- Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
- David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
- Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010)
- Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011)
- Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012)
- Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013)
- Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
- Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
- Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016)
- Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
- Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018)
- Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
- Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020)
- Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021)
- Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022)
- Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)
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